Crittenden County Judge-Executive Perry Newcom is planing four community meetings similar to the one held at the courthouse earlier this year in order to address the county’s financial situation and proposed solutions to fund EMS, senior citizens programs, parks and recreation and other efforts, as well as a potential mandate to provide health insurance for all county employees under Obamacare. An occupational tax has been introduced to help fund these items.
Those meetings are scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m., on the following dates:
- Tuesday at Mattoon Volunteer Fire Department;
- Thursday at Tolu Community Center;
- March 6 at Shady Grove Volunteer Fire Department; and
- March 8 tentatively at Dycusburg Baptist Church fellowship hall.
These meetings will give residents across the county a chance to weigh in on the issue before the taxing ordinance would be enacted with a second reading, probably at next month’s fiscal court meeting on March 20.
